Federal contractors vow to fight Obama executive order

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By Benjamin Goad - 08/03/14 02:27 PM EDT

Business interests are vowing to fight President Obama’s executive order imposing new restrictions on companies who want to do business with the federal government.

Obama announced the action this week, ordering up new regulations that would require firms seeking federal contracts to disclose labor law violations and create new compliance advisers at agencies to oversee decisions about which firms get the work.

But contractors, already facing executive orders requiring them to pay a higher minimum wage and subjecting them to additional anti-discrimination rules, say the president went too far.

“We are concerned these sweeping changes threaten the due process rights of federal contractors and conflict with existing federal procurement and labor law,” said Geoff Burr, vice president of government for Associated Builders and Contractors. “ABC and the federal contracting community across all industries are prepared to fight this order in the courts and in Congress.”

Read more: http://thehill.com/regulation/administration/214124-contractors-vow-to-fight-obama-order#ixzz39XetlgUc

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1. Translation

"We want to be able to treat our employees like property, pay them crap wages(so we at the top can fill our pockets), and be able to discriminate against women, gays, and people of color(because it's lots of fun for us)!"

That sounds about right...

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2. leeches and parasites frequently fight against their hosts nt

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3. Geeze, sounds like a kind of 'liberal' executive action. How did it come to this?

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The lyrics to the songbird's melodious trill go something like this:
"Stay out of my territory or I'll PECK YOUR GODDAMNED EYES OUT!"[/center][/font][hr]